Sorry, stupid newbie question.
I have VS2008, and I downloaded and installed the DirectX SDK.
I want to access the DirectX classes from C#, but I can't see how to make C#
aware of them.

I am trying to use a ssh stream reader that has no timeout method. It
simply watches the stream until an escape character appears in the
stream. It then returns the contents of the buffer. Thus, when the
server never responds to a read action (no escape character appears in

Microsoft updated their website interface, and now I am no longer able to
post questions. I log in and get to the screen where I select New >
Question. The page refreshes, but the question window never appears. How do
I get the question window? My pop-up blockers (Google and IE7) ...

Is anyone aware if Microsoft is planning to support WPF in the Compact
Framework? I know that they introduced the WCF in 3.5 CF but have not heard
anything about WPF. (or how about WF)?
Thanks

What I want to do is bring data into an excel 2007 worksheet that is stored
in a sql database table.
The idea is to parameterize the "where" clause in the sql select statement
limiting the result set.

I'm writing my first app that uses SQL Express to store a bunch of user
data (vice using a simple txt file, etc.), but I have a question that
you guys who've been doing this a while will probably laugh at.
Once I've completed my app, will I have to ship SQL Express with my app

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               Console.ForegroundColor =
(ConsoleColor)Enum.Parse(typeof(ConsoleColor),

I'm trying to use oledb to get the content of an excel file.
Now I can use oledb to get the content of a datasheet.
But I should know the name of the datasheet in advance.
How can I use oledb to query the names of all the spreadsheets in the excel

I have created a very simple C# class library (DLL).
I have ticked the "Register for COM interop" option in the project
properties dialog.
I have made the [assembly: ComVisible(true)] in the AssemblyInfo.cs file.

What is known about C# generics closing the gap with C++ templates in
the future? Template specialization is especially badly missed. What
new language features are coming in the next release of C#?

Is there an easy way in C# to take a string that contains an expression, say
for example something like '(10 / 2) + 1' and evaluate it without having to
parse the string myself and muck about with other stuff like operator
precedence?

Here is a problem I am facing (it might be too simple, but then I
admit I am not a Guru:-)
I have a main thread, in managed C++, that deals with displaying a
form and some controls.

I wrote a  VS 2005 C# express programme that accesses a web service. It works fine when there's a
direct connection to the internet, but on two different PCs with internet access via a proxy, I get
this exception:
System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 407: ...

I'd really like to be able to constrain a generic type to System.Enum or,
better, enum. But of course that results in "Compiler Error CS0702".
So far I've been checking the type parameter at runtime and throwing an
exception if the provided type is not an enum. That works, but it ...

Does anyone know why the string contains function always returns true
if the token is an empty string?  I expected it to return false.
"AnyOldText".Contains("")
or